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Only Krsna is the enjoyer, and if we cooperate with Krsna, through His enjoyment we can enjoy. This is our position. So this is real knowledge

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Everyone in this material world, they are, everyone is trying to become enjoyer, the first-class enjoyer, number one enjoyer. But it is not possible. Nobody can enjoy. Only Kṛṣṇa is the enjoyer, and if we cooperate with Kṛṣṇa, through His enjoyment we can enjoy. This is our position. So this is real knowledge. Every rascal is trying to become enjoyer. This is the material world. Everyone is after sense enjoyment. Even the so-called prakṛti, woman, the propensity is to enjoy. Puruṣa.

"We are working." The leg said: "Yes, I am, whole day, I am walking." The hand says: "Yes, I am working whole day, wherever the body says, 'You come here and pick up the food' bringing things, cooking. I am cooking, cooking also." Then the eyes, they said that, "I am seeing." So every limb, limbs of the body, they made a strike that, "No more we are going to work only for the stomach, who is eating only. We are all working, and this man, or this stomach, is eating only." Then the, the strike . . . just like the capitalist and the worker. The worker undergoes strike, no more working.

So all these limbs, parts of the body, they observed striking, and after two, three days, when again they met, they talked amongst themselves that, "Why we are becoming weak? We cannot work now." You see? The legs also said, "Yes, I am also feeling weak." Hands also feeling weak. Everyone. "So what is the cause?" The cause . . . then the stomach says: "Because I am not eating. So if you want to remain strong, then you must give me to eat.

Otherwise . . . so I am the enjoyer. You are not enjoyer. You are to supply things for my enjoyment. That is your position." So they understood, "Yes, we cannot directly enjoy. It is not possible." The enjoyment must be through the stomach. You take one rasagullā, you, the fingers, you cannot enjoy. You give it to the mouth, and when it goes to the stomach, there is immediately energy. Not only the fingers enjoy; the eyes, all other parts, they feel satisfaction, and strength also.

Similarly, the real enjoyer is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says:

bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ
sarva-loka-maheśvaram
suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ
jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati
(BG 5.29)

They are after śānti, peacefulness, peace of the mind. Then where is śānti? They are working hard, day and night, to get peace of the mind. No. That is not possible. How it is possible? Just try to understand three things only, then you'll get śānti. What is that? Kṛṣṇa says that, "I am the enjoyer. You are not enjoyer." Nobody's enjoyer. If you understand this, that Kṛṣṇa is the enjoyer . . . one, out of the three items, one: bhoktā. Everyone in this material world, they are, everyone is trying to become enjoyer, the first-class enjoyer, number one enjoyer. But it is not possible. Nobody can enjoy. Only Kṛṣṇa is the enjoyer, and if we cooperate with Kṛṣṇa, through His enjoyment we can enjoy. This is our position.

So this is real knowledge. Every rascal is trying to become enjoyer. This is the material world. Everyone is after sense enjoyment. Even the so-called prakṛti, woman, the propensity is to enjoy. Puruṣa. Therefore here in this material world, even though a woman is dressed like a woman, his (her) mind is puruṣa. He wants . . . she wants to enjoy. Here the woman wants a man. Although superficially it is supposed the man is the enjoyer, the woman is enjoyed, but actually the woman also wants to enjoy the man. That is māyā. A prakṛti cannot enjoy, become puruṣa. So in the Bhagavad-gītā, the living entities are described as prakṛti. Apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakṛtiṁ parā, jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat (BG 7.5).

Page Title:Only Krsna is the enjoyer, and if we cooperate with Krsna, through His enjoyment we can enjoy. This is our position. So this is real knowledge
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2023-05-13, 03:04:57
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1